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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

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The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
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Spiritual Success Wisdom
Without education, confidence does not come.
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Come Confidence Education
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
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Force Nothing Receptivity
Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.
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Journey Self Yoga
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.
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Goal Soul Yoga
It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?
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Body Mind Realization
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being
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Men Spiritual Yoga
Learning is as much an art as teaching
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Art Learn Teaching
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Goal Inspiring Spirituality
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
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May Suffering Thinking
Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.
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Block Flow Mind
Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.
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Long Odds Practice
Approach each asana with freshness every day.
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Approach Asana Freshness
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
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Maturity Perseverance Yoga
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving

A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

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